NONVIOLENCE is an orphan among democratic ideas. It has nearly vanished from public discourse even though the most basic element of free government—the vote—has no other meaning. Every ballot is a piece of nonviolence, signifying hard-won consent to raise politics above firepower and bloody conquest.

Sometimes you have to imagine in a radical way that makes you seem a little crazy, that puts you in an embarrassing light, in order to open up a possibility that others have already closed down with their knowing realism. I’m prepared to be mocked and dismissed for defending nonviolence in the way that I do. It might be understood as one of the

Soy enemigo de toda violencia y creo que mediante la dictadura, aunque sea con los fines más nobles, no vamos a acceder a una nueva sociedad. Y Rusia ha sido el mejor ejemplo. Por eso estoy en contra de cualquier tentativa violenta de imponer ideas. Creo en la pluralidad y la democracia. Se dice que la democracia es un régimen podrido, putrefacto y